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North Carolina is vacating former receiver Hakeem Nicks' statistics from 2008 because he was ineligible that season.
Team spokesman Kevin Best said Friday that Nicks' records and stats from that year will remain in the media guide but be noted with an asterisk.
Best did not give a reason why, though privacy laws prevent the school from discussing in detail any player's involvement in the NCAA's review of academic misconduct in the football program.
The News & Observer of Raleigh first reported Nicks' ineligibility.
Nicks, now with the New York Giants, set school records with 2,840 career yards receiving, 21 career touchdown receptions and 1,222 yards receiving in 2008.
UNC vacated its wins and statistics for ineligible players from 2008-09 after the NCAA's investigation into improper benefits and academic misconduct.


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BERLIN – The town of Berlin and Mayor Tom Cardinale last week filed a motion to dismiss the suit filed against them in December by former Finance Director Ron Bireley, who was fired in January 2005, citing certain fallacies in the original complaint.
Bireley filed the suit in Worcester County Circuit Court on Dec. 26, contending, "he was subjected to a frivolous, unmerited but widely publicized investigation for misconduct and then fired, depriving him of his rights to substantive and procedural due process." Bireley was fired by Cardinale on Jan. 7, 2005 and the termination was confirmed with a majority vote of the town council three days later.
With the lawsuit, Bireley is seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, an award of compensatory damages and an award of attorney fees and costs. As to Cardinale, the only individual named in the suit, Bireley is also seeking an award of punitive damages. From the beginning, Cardinale has contended Bireley's dismissal was the result of differences in philosophy and conflicting comfort levels with the amount of debt the town was carrying at the time.
The motion to dismiss filed last week by attorney Kevin Karpaski on behalf of the town and Cardinale attempts to point out several fallacies in the civil suit. For example, the motion denies Bireley has a right to any substantive due process claim because he was an "at will" employee at the time of his termination.
"Clearly, the plaintiff had no contractual right or entitlement to continued employment with the town," the motion reads. "The plaintiff was an at-will employee of the town of Berlin as he served at the pleasure of the mayor and could be terminated by the mayor with the consent of the council.
"As an at-will employee, the plaintiff could be fired for almost any reason, or for no reason at all," the motion to dismiss reads. "Therefore, defendants did not need cause to fire the plaintiff, rather, they could terminate for no reason at all if they wished."
A second major component of the lawsuit filed by Bireley against the town and Cardinale deals with alleged defamation of character issues, but the motion for dismissal attempts to invalidate those claims as well.
The motion dismisses the defamation component of the suit because it never mentions a specific example anywhere in the complaint.
"The complaint is completely devoid of any allegations of any illegal defamatory statement made about the plaintiff by any defendant," the motion reads. "Rather, all it alleges is that the plaintiff was fired and that there was publicity regarding his termination. Because the complaint fails to identify any allegedly defamatory statement made by a defendant, the complaint utterly fails to state a claim for false light invasion of privacy."

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Mark Spragg
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About the Author
Mark Spragg is the author of Where Rivers Change Direction, a memoir that won the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers award, and the novels The Fruit of Stone and An Unfinished Life, which was chosen by the Rocky Mountain News as the Best Book of 2004. All three were top-ten Book Sense selections and have been translated into fifteen languages. He lives with his wife, Virginia, in Wyoming.
Mark Spragg is represented by Random House Speakers Bureau (www.rhspeakers.com)


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Book Launch and Roundtable: Landform Building, Edited by Stan Allen and Marc McQuade
Join us for the launch of Landform Building: Architecture's New Terrain, a book edited by Stan Allen and Marc McQuade, designed by Thumb and published by Lars Müller with the Princeton School of Architecture. Landform Building traces an alternative history of architecture understood as artificial landscape.
Presentations by Lucia Allais, Nina Katchadourian, Geoff Manaugh, Eric Sanderson, and Alejandro Zaera-Polo will address the larger context of the book: the place of nature in the contemporary city, and the many ways in which the division of nature and culture is being remapped today.
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Splinter Cell: Blacklist
Splinter Cell: Blacklist is only a few months away, so Ubisoft had a lot to show off for Sam Fisher's upcoming adventure.
Spies vs. Mercs
The first mode to play is Spies vs. Mercs. Two modes are in the final game, Classic and Blacklist. I played the former.
Blacklist mode gives you access to leveling and loadouts, and ups the player count from four to eight. Classic mode is the traditional Spies vs. Mercs gameplay with everyone on the same level with the same loudouts.
I partner with producer Sebastian Ebacher to start as a Merc playing in the first-person perspective with our flashlights handy. A new system makes the Mercs literally turn jet-black and blend in with the shadows. It makes them very difficult to find.
I die on multiple occasions, which changes my perspective to the security cameras littering the level. I switch between cameras calling out spy locations whenever I was able to spot them before respawning.
As the Spies, I have more gadgets, but no gun. I have a crossbow device that I can use to stun enemies for four seconds, but I unless I get close to them and knock them out during that brief window, it's a waste of time
I also had luck with a remote explosive camera placed on the floor that I set off as a Merc was walking by while I was hanging from the ceiling.
The co-op levels are open with multiple objectives and multiple paths to complete them in any order you like. I tagged enemies and mines on the ground so my partner Briggs would know when to avoid them. We work together using the Dual Execute skill to take out powerful enemies. My partner Briggs shot the helmet off of an armored enemy, while I finish him off with a headshot.
At a point about halfway through the game, I start a mission that begins on a rainy dock. I quietly sneak past a red laser coming from the gun of a sniper in the distance from a window in the distance. A dog stands in my way, but I electrocute it before he can bark and reveal my location.
Patrick Redding, the director of the game, was nearby to walk me through the level. He instructs me to pull up my inventory to show me my tools and how to switch from my night-vision goggles to my sonar goggles that can see through walls. I can also press a button so that my melee attacks put enemies to sleep, or kill them.
I make it through the level sneaking up on bad guys, hiding in the shadows, and climbing on walls. After many knocked out guards, and one brief accidental firefight, I make it to my objective, photographing some secret documents.
The next room is a specific event that requires that I remain completely stealthy. I could not knock anyone out, or alert anyone in the slightest. I made it halfway through the room, but there is someone whose gaze I can't avoid. I throw a device that makes noise over in a corner, and when everyone leaves to inspect it, I sneak into a truck to investigate a bomb. The demo ends there.
While playing, I ask Redding if it's frustrating to watch people play the game, especially people like myself who are impatient and get caught often. Redding laughed and said that a big part of his job was watching people play his game. In fact, Splinter Cell has a large group of playtesters, especially considering the size of the studio.
Splinter Cell is coming to Xbox 360, PC, Wii U, and PlayStation 3 on August 20 and there are currently no plans to port the game to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Right now, the team is focusing on making the best game it can at the end of this generation's console lifecycle.
This preview was originally published on June 11, 2013.


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They Earned It, Let Them Smoke!
Lawmakers in Illinois are now back in session, and the statewide smoking ban has now taken effect in Illinois. We believe that veterans, those who have placed themselves into harms way for the rights of all Americans, have earned the right to not be affected by the smoking ban that has taken effect throughout the state. People throughout the state as well as the nation do not seem to understand that this issue is not just about smoking. This is about our freedom to choose. I understand not being able to smoke in government buildings, and public places that are open to the entire public, and I am not in any way suggesting that smoking should be allowed in these places. What I am saying is, American Legion and VFW halls should be able to choose for themselves whether or not they allow smoking. That being said, American Legions and VFW posts, and their supporters statewide are asking Illinois lawmakers to amend the smoking ban to exempt American Legions and VFW posts. These posts are by-in-large members only organizations that limit the access of the public to their buildings. Bearing all this in mind we ask that you please sign our petition and show your support for the rights of Illinois Veterans to not have one of their freedoms, which they fought so hard to protect, taken away. They protected your rights, don\'t take theirs away. They earned it, LET THEM SMOKE!!! This petition is not affiliated nor endorsed by the American Legion or any of its subsidiaries. JUST AN UPDATE, ILLINOIS REPRESENTATIVE MIKE BOLAND INTRODUCED HB4333 THAT WOULD EXEMPT VETERANS HALLS AND CLUBS FROM THE SMOKING BAN. CHECK THE LINKS ON THE RIGHT TO SEE THE BILL AND YOU CAN CONTACT HIM AT: email@example.com TO LEND YOUR SUPPORT.


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The worse thing as a designer is to mail someone asking them to plus your design and they reply with a fuck you do not spam me. It is very hard to get items to auction and designing is why I love this site (and the people) its not the games that keep me interested. I need a group that I can depend on to plus my designs. I will plus/comment/vote on anything I am sent. Thank you so much ILY!!
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
Part 7. The Origins of Dinotopia: Utopias
I wanted to connect all of the images I had painted into one geographic location, so I drew the shape of an island in marker and colored pencil. I made it big enough to encompass a variety of landforms, such as deserts, jungles, and mountains. I tried various names: "Panmundia," "Belterra," and "Saurotopia," until I thought of "Dinotopia," a portmanteau of "dinosaur" and "utopia."
What should the ground rules be for this society of humans and dinosaurs? I wanted to include only creatures that are known from the fossil record. I excluded modern animals living in our own world and I also left out any imaginary beings. Thus there might be tyrannosaurs and trilobites, but no dogs, horses, or mermaids.
I tried to portray the dinosaurs according to current scientific understanding, which at that time didn't generally include feathers. I had to eliminate a few paintings that presented impossible poses, such as a scene where a sauropod lies on its side in a lake to provide a swimming platform. Smithsonian paleontologist Michael Brett-Surman told me that such a position would break its ribs.
Without greatly changing their appearance, I wanted to endow dinosaurs with personalities and give them a limited ability to communicate. I chose the Protoceratops Bix, with her parrotlike beak and her birdlike vocal chords, as the saurian that could most convincingly mimic human speech. She became the ambassador and translator for the Denisons. I didn't want too many dinosaurs to be able to speak human languages, for fear of losing their essential mystery.
When I learned about the giant pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus, I knew I had found the crux of the story. Flying on the back of the largest winged creature of all time would certainly be the dream of any young Dinotopian. I nicknamed it "skybax" in Dinotopia for the sake of convenience.
During the course of researching the book, I visited the remarkable dinosaur trackways in central Connecticut. They reminded me of the cuneiform writing of the ancient Middle East, which some early explorers mistook for bird tracks in clay tablets. I carved a footprint stamp out of a pink eraser. By systematically rotating the three-toed prints, I invented the footprint alphabet, which would allow dinosaurs a nonverbal way to communicate.
Read More at these Links:
The new official Dinotopia website
20th Anniversary Edition of Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time
"Origins of Dinotopia" series on GurneyJourney:
Part 1: Childhood Dreams
Part 2: College Obsessions
Part 3: Lost Empires
Part 4: Dinosaurs
Part 5: Treetown
Part 6: The Illustrated Book
Part 7: Utopias
Part 8: Building a World
Part 9: Words and Pictures
Part 10: Canyon Worlds
Part 11: Putting it Together
Part 12: Book Launch
5 comments:
- Dylan Sara said...
I remember finding the alphabet particularly cool. Thanks for these great 'making of...' posts :)
- December 15, 2011 at 9:48 AM
- Steve said...
It's great to see the paper with the map with the handwritten list of possible names, and the underlinings and star next to Dinotopia. We can follow your movement of thought. With so many creative works now being generated electronically, early drafts disappear, taking their trail of the thinking process with them. At this distance of over 20 years, your saved early sketches for Dinotopia begin to take on the quality of preserved historical documents, echoing the very device used in the opening pages of the book: "I was tracking down some information about the spice trade in China when my eye fell upon a curious old leather-bound sketchbook..."
- December 15, 2011 at 12:11 PM
- Unknown said...
"I had to eliminate a few paintings that presented impossible poses, such as a scene where a sauropod lies on its side in a lake to provide a swimming platform. Smithsonian paleontologist Michael Brett-Surman told me that such a position would break its ribs.
But you didn't eliminate dinosaurs that show other unnatural behavior like populating cities, working in factories, etc...
;-) - December 15, 2011 at 1:13 PM
- Rachel Kimberly said...
I'm greatly enjoying this series of posts, since not only do I love Dinotopia, but I'm also an aspiring author/artist, and I love to hear about the origins of my artistic heroes' great works. :)
- December 16, 2011 at 12:22 AM
- Carol Scown-Raynal said...
All of your work here about the origins of Dinotopia should be one day put together into a book of itself. All of your work is a gigantic dinosaurus masterpiece and for the future, we need that your work be available for the good of the illustration world.
- December 16, 2011 at 6:58 AM


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There is no evidence that the common practice of giving patients oxygen to inhale during a heart attack is beneficial, according to a new Cochrane Systematic Review. Until further research is carried out, the researchers say the possibility that giving oxygen may actually increase a patient's risk of dying cannot be ruled out.
Globally, more than 30 million people have heart attacks every year, according to the World Health Organisation. Heart attacks occur when the flow of oxygenated blood to the heart is interrupted. Heart attack patients are often given oxygen to try to improve oxygenation of the heart tissue. However, there is little evidence that this intervention improves outcomes for heart patients and some evidence even suggests it may cause further damage.
The researchers included data from three trials in their studies. Patients were either given pure oxygen or air to inhale in the 24 hours following the onset of heart attack symptoms. Of the 387 patients involved in the studies only 14 died, but of these, almost three times as many had inhaled oxygen as opposed to air.
Although the results appear to suggest giving oxygen could do more harm than good, the researchers say there is not yet enough data to be certain. "This result does not necessarily mean that giving oxygen increases the risk of dying from a heart attack," said Dr Amanda Burls of the Department of Primary Health Care at the University of Oxford in Oxford, UK. "The numbers are so small that this may just have been due to chance."
However, said Prof Tom Quinn, another of the researchers based at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK, it is important to resolve the uncertainty. "Given the fact that this is such a widely used treatment, we think it is important that a large trial is conducted as soon as possible to make sure that giving oxygen is not causing any harm."
Another member of the team, Dr. Juan Cabello of the Alicante General University Hospital in Alicante, Spain, added, "It is truly amazing how we, as cardiologists, have been employing this treatment without solid evidence."
Full citation: Cabello JB, Burls A, Emparanza JI, Bayliss S, Quinn T. Oxygen therapy for acute myocardial infarction. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2010, Issue 6. Art. No.: CD007160. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007160.pub2
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Backcountry avalanche centers across Canada and the United States will be using a new avalanche danger scale for the 2010/11 season. The new scale reduces some of the ambiguity of the previous scale, provides more definitive travel advice for backcountry recreationists, incorporates risk by referring to typical avalanche sizes expected and utilizes icons recently adopted by European countries.
"It was great to be able to build upon and improve an already successful avalanche danger scale with this effort," Grant Statham, project leader and Avalanche Risk Specialist for Parks Canada, said.
Karl Birkeland, the U.S. lead on the project and an Avalanche Scientist with the USDA Forest Service National Avalanche Center, said, "It was especially encouraging to work closely with our Canadian colleagues to come up with a unified scale. This will only help in our efforts to promote avalanche forecasting consistency and to improve safety for the many people who recreate in the backcountry in both countries."
This danger scale is the first time that the two countries have used the same scale and is the result of a multi-year effort by the Canadian Avalanche Centre, Parks Canada, the USDA Forest Service and the Colorado Avalanche Information Center. The recent proposal by New Zealand's Mountain Safety Centre to use the new scale starting in the 2011 southern hemisphere winter has further increased the international scope of the project.
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Seems like tech billionaires love buying up parts of Hawaii. Maybe Ellison is competing with Steve Case, who also owns tens of thousands of acres in the islands.
Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison bought a small Hawaii airline Tuesday, less than a year after he bought most of the Hawaiian island of Lanai.
Island Air said in a news release there will no layoffs or other staff changes after its sale to Ohana Airline Holdings LLC, a holding company owned by the billionaire.
Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.
"We are excited Mr. Ellison has acquired Island Air. He has the vision and resources to literally take Island Air to new heights," Island Air's president, Les Murashige, said in a statement.
"We understand the critical importance of transportation in an island state, and we will ensure that Island Air strengthens its role, capacity and service to the people of Hawaii," Marinelli said.
Ellison bought 98 percent of Lanai from billionaire David Murdock in June for an undisclosed price. The Maui News reported that Murdock, the CEO of Castle & Cooke Inc., was seeking $500 million to $600 million for his Lanai holdings.
Ellison told CNBC in an interview a few months later he envisions the 141-square-mile island near Maui becoming a "little laboratory" for experimenting with more environmentally sound ways to live.
His plans include converting sea water into fresh water, increasing the use of electric cars, and boosting fruit exports to Japan and other markets.
Forbes magazine named Ellison, who has a fortune estimated at $36 billion, the sixth richest person in the world last year.
Island Air offers 224 weekly flights between Oahu, Maui, the Big Island, Kauai, Molokai and Lanai.
It's dwarfed by the state's largest carrier, Hawaiian Airlines, which flies 160 flights between the Hawaiian Islands each day. Hawaiian also flies to cities in the U.S. mainland, Asia and Pacific.
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As they stated on the original post: "During major events, people use Twitter to share news and thoughts with friends, family and followers around the world. Messages originating in one place are quickly spread across the globe through Retweets, @replies and Direct Messages. We see this behavior during everything from sporting events like the World Cup to widely-televised news events like the royal wedding, and also in the face of major disasters like the March 11 earthquake in Japan, where the volume of Tweets sent per second spiked to more than 5,000 TPS five separate times after the quake and ensuing tsunami."
To better understand this diffusion process, Abdur and his team created two video clips. The first image is from a clip showing the volume of @replies traveling into and out of Japan in a one-hour period just before and then after the earthquake. Replies directed to users in Japan are shown in pink; messages directed at others from Japan are shown in yellow.
The second one is from a clip displaying worldwide retweets of Tweets originating in Japan for one hour after the earthquake. Senders' original Tweets are shown in pink; Tweets retweeted by their followers in the hour after the event are displayed in green.


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In this June 4, 2013 file photo, Philadelphia Eagles' Felix Jones makes a catch at the team's NFL football training facility in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
by Will Graves
AP Sports Writer
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers bolstered their injury-plagued backfield on Friday, acquiring running back Felix Jones from Philadelphia for linebacker Adrian Robinson.
The deal is pending each player passing a physical.
The 26-year-old Jones gives the Steelers needed depth at running back. Rookie Le'Veon Bell is out with a sprained right foot and is out indefinitely. Isaac Redman is dealing with a nerve injury and return specialist LaRod Stephens-Howling sat out last Monday's preseason game against Washington with a sprained knee.
Jones was the 22nd overall pick in the 2008 NFL Draft by the Dallas Cowboys but never stayed healthy enough to become a feature back. He has rushed for 2,728 yards and 11 touchdowns in 64 games.
The Eagles brought in Jones to compete for a backup spot behind starter LeSean McCoy. Jones rushed for 45 yards on 12 carries and caught two passes for 12 yards in two preseason games with Philadelphia but failed to make inroads on youngsters Bryce Brown and Chris Polk.
Jones' versatility gives Pittsburgh options if Stephens-Howling remains limited. The former Arkansas star, considered one of the fastest players in the league when healthy, has worked part-time as a return specialist throughout his career, including a 98-yard kickoff return for a score during his rookie season.
It's unlikely the Steelers consider Jones a short-term replacement for Bell, who sprained his foot against the Redskins. Bell said Thursday he is optimistic he'll be able to return quickly and coach Mike Tomlin called early developments in Bell's rehab encouraging.
Redman and Jonathan Dwyer, who led the Steelers with 623 yards rushing last season, will split time with the first team on Saturday night against Kansas City. Tomlin said there's a chance Stephens-Howling may play versus the Chiefs. Stephens-Howling is considered the leading candidate to handle kickoffs when the season opens Sept. 8 against Tennessee.
Robinson made the Steelers as an undrafted rookie free agent last season, appearing in 12 games. He was in the midst of a stellar camp and recovered a fumble for Pittsburgh's only touchdown in the preseason opener against the New York Giants.


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Shadowy PLA unit coded as 61398 could be responsible for cyber espionage
U.S.-based security firm Mandiant studied hacking activity originating from China over a six-year period
Mandiant says it has details on the what, where, who, and how of unit 61398
Chinese authorities deny any connection between the military and cyber espionage
"UglyGorilla," "KandyGoo," and "WinXYHappy" are some of the aliases used by the Chinese accused of hacking U.S. companies on Monday.
The men behind these handles are officers of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) under a unit known simply by the code 61398.
Little is confirmed about the mysterious unit 61398, a section that the Chinese authorities have not officially acknowledged. The Chinese defense ministry said the country's military "has never supported any hacker activities."
But the U.S. indictment notice pinpoints a non-descript building on Datong Road in Shanghai's Pudong District as one of the locations for unit 61398's alleged cyber espionage activities.
When CNN tried to visit the building last year, our correspondents were chased away by security guards, as seen in the video above.
What is unit 61398 and what do they do? U.S.-based Internet security firm Mandiant released a 60-page report last year detailing allegations against the shadowy unit over a six-year period.
According to Mandiant's document and the U.S. indictment, here's what we know about the secret division.
Mandiant says unit 61398 is also known as the "comment crew," and has systematically stolen hundreds of terabytes of data from at least 141 organizations across 20 industries worldwide since as early as 2006.
Mandiant estimates that more than 1,000 servers are being used by unit 61398.
The security firm believes the unit employs anywhere from hundreds to thousands of staff. A look at the physical size of the building in Shanghai – 12 floors high, with more than 130,000 square feet of space – suggests the unit could house around 2,000 people.
Mandiant observed 141 companies targeted by unit 61398, out of which 115 were in the United States. These were blue-chip companies in important industries such as aerospace, satellite and telecommunications, and information technology – strategic industries that were identified in China's five year plan for 2011 to 2015.
"It's really a who's who of American companies," says Grady Summers, Mandiant's vice president.
Some of the alleged victims included in the latest indictment are U.S. Steel Corp., Westinghouse, Alcoa, Allegheny Technologies, the United Steel Workers Union and SolarWorld.
Unit 61398 was given a special fiber optic communication infrastructure by state-owned enterprise China Telecom in the name of national defense, Mandiant reported.
The accused Chinese hackers reportedly use spear-phishing to hack into companies. The simple trick makes scam emails appear like they are from someone the receiver actually knows. For example, the emails would be personally addressed and signed by another employee in the same company.
Spear-phishers may scan social media to find out personal details about a victim to make the scam emails seem legitimate.
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Unit 61398 is just one of more than 20 cyber attack groups with origins in China, says Mandiant.


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Do you spend a lot of time during the design process wondering what users really need? Do you hate those endless meetings where you argue how the interface should work? Have you ever developed something that later had to be completely redesigned? Paper Prototyping can help. Written by a usability engineer with a long and successful paper prototyping history, this book is a practical, how-to guide that will prepare you to create and test paper prototypes of all kinds of user interfaces. You'll see how to simulate various kinds of interface elements and interactions. You'll learn about the practical aspects of paper prototyping, such as deciding when the technique is appropriate, scheduling the activities, and handling the skepticism of others in your organization. Numerous case studies and images throughout the book show you real world examples of paper prototyping at work. Learn how to use this powerful technique to develop products that are more useful, intuitive, efficient, and pleasing: * Save time and money - solve key problems before implementation begins * Get user feedback early - use it to focus the development process * Communicate better - involve development team members from a variety of disciplines * Be more creative - experiment with many ideas before committing to one
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Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder-Search For Images By Content
In our digital era shooting and editing digital photos is part of our daily life. Unfortunately we rarely keep a well organized database. We copy images to temporary locations in different formats that we needed at certain points of our work and forget to delete them. Searching for a photograph by its content was an impossible task for a computer so soon we are going out of storage. In such situations what comes extremely handy is a product developed by MindGems Inc.
I am going to introduce you here – Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder. Though a bit long, the name of the product describes it perfectly well. The product will find similar images regardless of the file name, format, image size and bit depth. Image processing is a heavy task and the performance achieved by this application is incredible. It manages to scan thousands of images in few minutes. I got also some information from the company about a new feature that will be available in the upcoming version. A photo search option. It will let you search for images by a sample. You will no longer have to search for your wedding photos. Do you remember that photo you mailed to John? Just load it in Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder and it will find the rest of the images for you. A very nice feature that will let you find the rest of the images from the set by loading a single sample.
Many professionals and also advanced photographers take images in RAW format. The quality of the RAW images is much better compared to JPEG, but the drawback is the size and the fact that very small amount of products supports it. The good news here is that Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder will provide also a RAW support soon for all the popular camera brands available on the market.
I must admit also the vast variety of image formats that it supports. Here is a complete list:
- JPEG Bitmap (*.jpg;*.jpeg;*.jpe)
- Compuserve Bitmap (*.gif)
- Portable Network Graphics (*.png)
- TIFF Bitmap (*.tif;*.tiff;*.fax;*.g3n;*.g3f)
- JPEG2000 Files (*.jp2)
- JPEG2000 Code Stream (*.j2k;*.jpc;*.j2c)
- Targa (*.tga;*.targa;*.vda;*.icb;*.vst;*.pix)
- Paintbrush (*.pcx)
- Windows Bitmap (*.bmp;*.dib;*.rle)
- Windows Metafile (*.wmf)
- Enhanced Windows Metafile (*.emf)
- Windows Icon (*.ico)
- Windows Cursor (*.cur)
- Wireless Bitmap (*.wbmp)
- Portable Pixmap (*.pxm;*.ppm)
- Adobe Photoshop (*.psd)
You can download a fully functional demo at the company web site – Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder.
Also do not miss to check out the detailed Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder tutorial page


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Craft brewing is exploding in the United States, with 409 new breweries opening last year alone. According to the Brewers Association, an advocacy group for craft beer, more than 1200 breweries are currently on the drawing board.
If you doubt these numbers, take a stroll down the beer aisle of your local supermarket. You'll be lucky if you recognize a fraction of the brands. Some of them, of course, are not true craft beers. Large breweries such as Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors have launched their own "craft" labels, in an attempt to hold on to market share as customers desert them in droves. Another thing the large brewers have going for them—and something the Brewers Association is actively fighting—is their control of the distribution network, which makes it easier for them to keep the craft brewers in check.
All their efforts aren't working. Sales of Budweiser declined 29% in the period from 2006 to 2011, and are actually down 60% from their peak in 1988. The appeal of locally brewed and hand-crafted products simply appears to be too strong.
Budweiser's latest solution to their economic dilemma is new packaging: the bowtie can. Basically, it looks like a can of Bud that has been squeezed in the middle, making it slightly easier to hold. It contains a bit less beer than the old can, but is otherwise identical.
The reasoning behind this move is very interesting. It is similar to being desperately attracted to a member of the opposite sex—someone who has absolutely no interest in you. You've tried everything to catch this person's attention, to no avail. Then one day, you become convinced that if you only put on a different shirt, the object of your desire will throw themself at your feet. It's a sad theory, but that's what desperation will do.
In this case, the problem is that the beer inside the can is still Budweiser.
Mark Spivak is the author of Iconic Spirits: An Intoxicating History, published by Lyons Press (Globe Pequot); for more information, go to amazon.com


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Pike County WIC Offices provide access to the Women, Infants, and Children nutritional program in Pike County, Mississippi. Pike County WIC Offices process applications to join the Pike County welfare program, provide nutrition education, and administer food services to eligible people. Pregnant and recently pregnant women, infants, and young children are eligible for the program if they meet income requirements and are at nutrition risk. Pike County WIC Offices determine eligibility for benefits and accept applications, and they may conduct assessments for determining nutrition risk. WIC Office services may be available through their website.
Pike County Health Department WIC Office McComb MS 114 East Presley Boulevard 39648 601-684-1030
Pike County WIC Office Summit MS 1029 Phillips Hill 39666 601-684-2277
A Pike County Social Security Office is a local branch of the federal Social Security Administration in Pike County, Mississippi. Pike County Social Security Offices issue Social Security cards, estimate retirement benefit payments, and help people determine their eligibility for benefits. They also process applications for retirement benefits and SSI benefits. These Pike County public records contain personal information, details on an individual's work history, their government benefits, and survivor benefits. Social Security Offices in Pike County provide information about a range of services offered by Social Security, which may be available through their website.
Mc Comb Social Security Office McComb MS 211 Gay Street 39648 601-684-4831
A Pike County Child, Youth, and Family Services Office provides programs and services to assist children, youth, and families in Pike County, Mississippi. This can include protective services, emergency assistance, and income support programs. Pike County Child, Youth, and Family Services Departments may offer job training, education assistance, and childcare subsidy programs. They may also be responsible for children's welfare services, such as adoption and foster care, as well as regulating and licensing Pike County child daycare providers. They may be responsible for enforcing Pike County child support payments and investigating child abuse, domestic abuse, and elderly or adult abuse. The Child, Youth, and Family Services Office may provide access to services on its website.
McComb Family & Childrens Service McComb MS 1002 Warren Krout Road 39648 601-684-0195
Pike County Food Stamp Offices administer the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), a form of nutrition assistance provided to income-eligible households in Pike County, Mississippi. Local Pike County Food Stamp Offices can process applications for SNAP benefits, help determine eligibility for the program, and provide nutritional education. They also help administer monthly benefits, distribute food assistance benefits, and accept applications from individuals and Pike County households. Food Stamp Offices in Pike County may also monitor compliance with SNAP rules. Food Stamp Offices provide access to information and services on their websites.
Pike County Department of Human Services Food Stamp Office McComb MS 1002 Warren Krout Road 39648 601-684-7100
The Pike County Social Services Department provides a range of health and human services and programs in Pike County, Mississippi. They often administer safety net programs, provide basic necessities, and protect children, the elderly, and dependent or vulnerable adults. Pike County Social Services may administer assistance programs such as SNAP or TANF, as well as Medicare or Medicaid and any state health programs for low-income uninsured or underinsured groups. They may also provide Pike County housing services, substance abuse and addiction services, energy assistance, and mental health services. Social Service Departments in Pike County provide online access to many of their services and programs.
Pike County Social Service Department McComb MS 1002 Warren Krout Road 39648 601-684-3431


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DragThing is the original dock designed to tidy up your Macintosh desktop.
It puts all your documents, folders, and applications just a single click away. Highly flexible, it allows multiple docks, each customised to suit your exact needs.
It stores frequently-used clippings such as text and pictures, and lets you easily paste them into other applications with just a click.
DragThing also allows you to define a wide variety of hot keys. These hot keys can open items in docks, control various other aspects of DragThing and even control the visibility of and switching between other applications running on your Mac.
DragThing can also provide you with a Trash on your desktop, play sounds in response to actions like ejecting a CD, and a lot more besides.
DragThing requires Mac OS 10.7.4 or later.
DragThing is shareware. That means that you can download a copy freely to see if you like it, and if you decide to use it you should pay for your copy. In return for paying you will receive a serial number which will disable the reminder message at startup, and enable some extra features including floating dock windows and hot keys to open dock items.
A single user license for DragThing costs $29. Five and ten-packs of licenses cost $99 and $149 respectively. Unlimited user site and world licenses are also available at $1000 and $2000 respectively. Contact us for educational pricing on multiple licences.
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See what other people have to say about DragThing:
"...one of my favourite Mac utilities of all time..." Jason Snell, Macworld, December 2007 |
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"...don't know how I ever lived without it..." Stephen Fry, April 2004 |
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"...this probably is the greatest piece of shareware available for the Mac..." - (five mice rating) Tim Danaher, MacUser UK, 13th June 2003 |
"...we're happy to report that with version 4.5.2, DragThing is still our favorite shareware file launcher..." - (four and a half mice rating) Jason Snell, MacWorld, March 2003 |
"...it makes you wonder what Apple's engineers would have done had they looked at this when developing the Dock..." - (number 5 in their top 50 best Mac OS X utilities) Tom Gorham, MacUser UK, 7th March 2003 |
"...if the Dock still causes severe abdominal cramps, you can use James Thomson's DragThing..." Andy Ihnatko, MacWorld, January 2003 |
"...an essential addition to the Mac OS..." - (four and a half mice rating) Craig Grannell, MacUser UK, 2nd November 2002 |
"...DragThing combines the features of OS 9's Application menu and Launcher in one utility - and then it outperforms both. Many of its fans use it as an alternative to OS X's Dock..." - (four and a half mice rating) Ted Landau, MacWorld, July 2002 |
"...DragThing can rightfully be called an indispensable aid to working with your Mac..." - (five mice rating) Tim Danaher, MacUser UK, 9th June 2000 |
"...you made the switch to OS X a lot easier for me..." Bob LeVitus, March 2001 |
"...this is a perfect piece of Mac software - clean, simple, powerful, and plugs a major hole in the user interface..." Douglas Adams, The Digital Village, March 1998 |
"...a gorgeous, feature-laden productivity enhancer..." David Pogue, Macworld, January 1996 |
"...a breath-taking, must-have utility..." Keith Brindley, MacUser UK, October 1997 |
"...a solid, easy, elegant application..." Tonya Engst, TidBITS#277 |
"...one of the best launchers available..." Kevin M. Savetz, MacAddict, April 1998 |
"...no system installation is complete until you've added DragThing..." Nicholas C. DeMello, Editor of MacTech Magazine, May 1998 |
"...it's simple, convenient, elegant, and pretty, yet offers enough options for even the most powerful of power users..." Bob LeVitus, Houston Chronicle, 26th May 1996 |
"...a definite must-see when you are deciding on a launching palette..." - (four mice rating) Andrew Kim, MacUser Software Central, 1st August 1996 |
"...though there are many file-launching palette utilities out there, this may be our favorite..." - (five mice rating) Jason Snell, MacUser Software Central, 1st August 1997 |
DragThing has also won a number of awards:
Finalist in the MacGeneration Awards 2004. |
Runner-up for best third-party utility in the MacInTouch Reader Choice Poll 2003 |
Finalist for "Best Productivity Utility" in the Macworld 18th Annual Editors' Choice Awards 2002 |
Winner of the gold MacFixIt Toolbox Award for "Best Enhancement Software" 2000 |
Winner of the Guldmusen (Golden Mouse) award for "Best Finder Enhancement Software" from Macworld Sweden 1996 |
Winner of second prize in "World Shareware" category from MuON Japan 1997 |
Almost Nominated for "Outstanding Programming for a Freeware Product" in the Second Annual Usenet Macintosh Programming Awards 1996! |


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Regal Orchids
Grace. Beauty. Prosperity. And love. These are just some of the lovely qualities attached to the exquisite orchid. So imagine the effect of receiving six stunning orchid plants all at once. Magical, right?
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Persons using assistive technology might not be able to fully access information in this file. For assistance, please send e-mail to: firstname.lastname@example.com. Type 508 Accommodation and the title of the report in the subject line of e-mail.
Periodontitis Among Adults Aged ≥30 Years — United States, 2009–2010
Corresponding author: Paul Eke, Division of Population Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC. Telephone: 770-488-6092; E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Periodontal disease, or gum disease, is a chronic infection of the hard and soft tissue supporting the teeth (1) and is a leading cause of tooth loss in older adults (2). Tooth loss impairs dental function and quality of life in older adults (2). The chronic infections associated with periodontitis can increase the risk for aspiration pneumonia in older adults and has been implicated in the pathogenesis of chronic inflammation that impairs general health (3,4). The severity of periodontal disease can be categorized as mild, moderate, or severe on the basis of multiple measurements of periodontal pocket depth, attachment loss, and gingival inflammation around teeth (5).
At the national level, monitoring the reduction of moderate and severe periodontitis in the adult U.S. population is part of the health-promotion and disease-prevention activities of Healthy People 2020 (6). Approximately 47% of adults aged ≥30 years in the United States (approximately 65 million adults) have periodontitis: 8.7% with mild periodontitis, 30.0% with moderate, and 8.5% with severe periodontitis (7). Periodontitis increases with age; adults aged ≥65 years have periodontitis at rates of 5.9%, 53.0%, and 11.2% for mild, moderate, and severe forms, respectively (7). As the U.S. adult population ages and is more likely to retain more teeth than previous generations, the prevalence of periodontitis is expected to increase and consequently could increase the need for expenditures for preventive care and periodontal treatment (8).
Periodontitis is directly associated with lower levels of education and higher levels of poverty, both of which influence the use of dental services by adults (9–12). Educational attainment and poverty might mediate significant differences in the prevalence of periodontal disease between different racial/ethnic populations. Smoking and some chronic diseases such as diabetes are important modifiable risk factors for periodontitis (13). Since the early 1960s, U.S. national surveys have assessed the periodontal status of adults (14). However, the validity of estimates from these surveys has been limited by the use of partial-mouth periodontal examination protocols, which significantly underestimate the prevalence of periodontitis (15–17). The 2009–2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) cycle is the first to include a full-mouth periodontal examination for U.S. adults (aged ≥30 years) and provides the most direct evidence for the true prevalence of periodontitis in this population.
This report is part of the second CDC Health Disparities and Inequalities Report (CHDIR). The 2011 CHDIR (18) was the first CDC report to assess disparities across a wide range of diseases, behavioral risk factors, environmental exposures, social determinants, and health-care access. The topic presented in this report is based on criteria that are described in the 2013 CHDIR Introduction (19). This report provides information concerning disparities in periodontitis, a topic that was not discussed in the 2011 CHDIR (18). The purposes of this periodontitis in adults report are to discuss and raise awareness of differences in the characteristics of people with periodontal disease and to prompt actions to reduce these disparities.
To examine racial/ethnic disparities in the estimated percentage of adults aged ≥30 years with periodontitis by age, sex, education, poverty levels, and smoking status, CDC analyzed data from the 2009-2010 NHANES cycle. NHANES is a cross-sectional survey designed to monitor the overall health and nutritional status of civilian, noninstitutionalized U.S. population. NHANES uses a stratified multistage probability sampling design. For 2-year data cycles, NHANES surveys a national representative sample. The technical details of the survey, including sampling design, periodontal data collection protocols, and data, are available online (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes.htm). A total of 5,037 adults aged ≥30 years participated in the survey, and 951 were excluded for medical reasons or incomplete oral examinations. In this analysis, 343 edentulous participants were excluded, leaving a total of 3,743 participants, representing a weighted population of approximately 137.1 million civilian noninstitutionalized U.S. adults. The findings in this report cannot be compared with those of previous studies using NHANES data (9,10) because the case definitions and age range used in this analysis differed.
All periodontal examinations were conducted in a mobile examination center by dental hygienists registered in at least one U.S. state. Gingival recession was defined as the distance between the free gingival margin and the cementoenamel junction; pocket depth was defined as the distance from free gingival margin to the bottom of the sulcus or periodontal pocket. These measurements were made at six sites per tooth (mesiobuccal, midbuccal, distobuccal, mesiolingual, midlingual, and distolingual) for all teeth except third molars. For measurements at each tooth site, a periodontal probe (Hu-Friedy PCP 2) with graduations of 2 mm, 4 mm, 6 mm, 8 mm, 10 mm, and 12 mm was positioned parallel to the long axis of the tooth at each site. Each measurement was rounded to the lowest whole millimeter. Data were recorded directly into an NHANES oral health data management program that instantly calculated attachment loss as the difference between probing depth and gingival recession. Bleeding from probing and the presence of dental furcations were not assessed.
Periodontal measurements were used to classify participants as having mild, moderate, or severe disease by using standard case definitions for surveillance of periodontitis (4); total prevalence of periodontitis in the population was calculated by combining prevalence of mild, moderate, and severe periodontitis. Severe periodontitis was defined as having two or more interproximal sites with ≥6 mm attachment (not on the same tooth) and one or more interproximal sites with ≥5 mm pocket depth. Moderate periodontitis was defined as two or more interproximal sites with ≥4 mm clinical attachment (not on the same tooth) or two or more interproximal sites with pocket depth of ≥5 mm (not on the same tooth). Mild periodontitis was defined as two or more interproximal sites with ≥3 mm attachment and two or more interproximal sites with ≥4 mm pocket depth (not on the same tooth) or one site with ≥5 mm.
Race/ethnicity was self-reported; for this analysis, three race/ethnicity groups, each with a sample size large enough to ensure statistically reliable estimates, were used: non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, and Mexican-American. Poverty status categories, or percentage of poverty relative to the federal poverty level (FPL), was based on family income, family size, and number of children in the family, for families with two or fewer adults, and on the age of the adults in the household. Families or individuals with income below their appropriate income thresholds, as determined by family size and composition, were classified as living below the FPL. The income thresholds are updated annually by the U.S. Census Bureau (available at http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/11poverty.shtml). Education was classified as less than high school, high school graduate or equivalent, and greater than high school. Smoking status was determined by responses to two questions: 1) "Have you smoked at least 100 cigarettes in your life?" and 2) "Do you now smoke cigarettes?" Participants who answered yes to both questions were categorized as current smokers, participants who answered yes to the first question and no to the second were categorized as former smokers, and participants who answered no to both questions were categorized as never smokers. Geographic regions were not analyzed because NHANES is not designed to be representative at regional (or lower) levels.
Disparities were assessed by age group, sex, race/ethnicity, education, FPL, and smoking status for the total population and by race/ethnicity. Referent groups for each category had the best overall periodontal health for the category. Disparities were measured as deviations from a referent group, which was the group that had the most favorable estimate for the variables used to assess disparities during the time reported. Absolute difference was measured as the simple difference between the periodontitis prevalence for the group of interest and the referent group. The relative difference, a percentage, was calculated by dividing the absolute difference by the value in the referent category and multiplying by 100. The z test was used to assess significant differences between absolute differences from the referent group, with significance set at p<0.05. Data (using mobile examination center weights) were analyzed using statistical software to adjust for the effects of the sampling design, including the unequal probability of selection, and to determine standard errors (SEs).
During 2009–2010, an estimated 47.2% of adults aged ≥30 years in the United States had periodontitis (Table 1). The prevalence of total and moderate periodontitis increased with increasing age among all adults. However, the prevalence of mild and severe periodontitis remained relatively steady at <15% across all age groups (Figure).
The prevalence of periodontitis was significantly higher in non-Hispanic blacks (58.6%) and Mexican-Americans (59.7%) compared with non-Hispanic whites (42.6%). Among all racial/ethnic groups, the prevalence of periodontitis increased with age (24.4%–70.1%), with the largest relative difference in prevalence within age groups occurring among non-Hispanic whites (range: 16.6%–68.0%). The prevalence of periodontitis was significantly higher among men (56.4%) than women (38.4%) overall, and this finding was consistent among racial/ethnic groups. By education level, periodontitis was highest among persons with less than a high school education (66.9%), and the relative difference between those with greater than a high school education and those with less education was largest in Mexican-Americans (73.8%) and smallest in non-Hispanic blacks (28.8%). The prevalence of periodontitis increased as FPL percentage decreased, with an estimate of 65.4% of persons in the poorest families (<100% FPL), representing an 85% relative increase compared with families at ≥400% FPL. The relative difference in prevalence between these categories of FPL was largest among non-Hispanic whites (82.8%) and smallest among non-Hispanic blacks (35.5%). Periodontitis was more prevalent among current smokers (64.2%) than nonsmokers (39.8%) and significantly higher among non-Hispanic black current smokers (79.1%) than non-Hispanic white (60.8%) and Mexican-American current smokers (69.1%) (Table 1).
During 2009–2010, an estimated 8.7% of the U.S. adult population had mild periodontitis. The prevalence of moderate periodontitis was 30.0% (Table 2). Prevalence of moderate periodontitis increased with age and peaked at age ≥65 years. Overall, prevalence was higher in men (33.8%) than women (26.4%) and higher among non-Hispanic black men (42.7%) than men in other racial/ethnic groups. Increasing prevalence was associated with lower education and poverty levels. Specifically, the prevalence of moderate periodontitis at the lowest levels of education and poverty were higher among non-Hispanic whites and Mexican-Americans than non-Hispanic blacks. Prevalence of moderate periodontal disease was higher among current smokers (36.5%) and former smokers (35.6%) than among nonsmokers (25.6%). However, this pattern was not consistent among non-Hispanic blacks and Mexican-Americans, among whom the highest prevalence of moderate periodontitis was among former smokers. The relative difference in prevalence between poverty levels was smallest among non-Hispanic blacks, suggesting that income had the least impact on moderate periodontitis in this racial/ethnic group. Significant absolute differences were found in moderate periodontitis among current smokers, former smokers, and nonsmokers and was significantly higher among non-Hispanic blacks.
Severe periodontitis was estimated to occur in 8.5% of U.S. adults aged ≥30 years (Table 3). Severe periodontitis was twice as common among non-Hispanic blacks (13.2%) and Mexican-Americans (13.3%) as among non-Hispanic whites (6.3%). Severe periodontitis increased with age and peaked at age 50 years among all racial/ethnic groups. Overall, severe disease was almost three times higher among men (12.5%) than women (4.2%) and approximately two times higher among non-Hispanic black men (19.3%) and Mexican-American men (18.8%) than among non-Hispanic white men (9.4%). Severe periodontitis among persons with less than a high school education was an estimated 17.3% and decreased with increasing levels of education. Among racial/ethnic groups, the smallest relative differences by level of education occurred among non-Hispanic blacks. Similarly, the prevalence of severe periodontitis increased with increasing poverty levels, with an estimated 16.3% of adults in families living at <100% FPL having severe disease. The relative difference in prevalence by poverty level (across all racial/ethnic groups) was smallest among non-Hispanic blacks, suggesting that income had the least influence on severe periodontitis in this racial/ethnic group. The prevalence of severe periodontitis was approximately two times as common among smokers at 17.7% than among former smokers (9%) and nonsmokers (5.4%) and was significantly higher among non-Hispanic blacks (24.4%) and Mexican-Americans (24.5%) than among non-Hispanic white smokers (13.9%)
Overall, significant disparities exist in the prevalence of periodontitis by race/ethnicity, education and poverty level. These results suggest that non-Hispanic blacks and Mexican-Americans have similar prevalences of periodontitis but higher prevalences than non-Hispanic whites. In addition, the relative differences in the prevalence of total periodontitis (i.e., mild, moderate, and severe combined) among non-Hispanic blacks varied the least by poverty and education levels, possibly suggesting that poverty and education have less of an effect than other factors on the higher prevalence of periodontitis among non-Hispanic Blacks and Mexican-Americans. The highest prevalence of periodontitis was found among adults aged ≥65 years. By 2030, the number of adults aged ≥65 years in the U.S. will double to 71 million adults, or one in every five Americans (8), with significant changes in the distribution of demographic and socioeconomic groups.
The findings in this report are subject to at least four limitations, all of which might have resulted in an underestimation of the prevalence of periodontitis cases. First, the case definitions for periodontitis used measures from four interproximal sites, and not all six of the sites were measured. Second, estimates did not include persons with gingivitis. Gingivitis is a form of periodontal disease that was not assessed in the NHANES 2009–2010 data cycle. Third, NHANES does not sample institutionalized persons such as older adults in nursing homes, which might have resulted in an underestimate for older adults. Fourth, NHANES does not collect data from third molars. This exclusion of third molars is consistent with previous NHANES data cycles; third molars are difficult to assess clinically because of their alignment in the mouth, and some are partially impacted.
Preventive dental care programs should be an integral part of preventive health services for all ages and should include strategies to make dental care programs accessible to all racial/ethnic groups to promote health and preserve health-related quality of life in older adults. Adults aged ≥65 years do not have dental coverage through Medicare, and approximately 70% of U.S. adults in this age group have no dental coverage (20). Management of diabetes and smoking is an important component of prevention and treatment of adult periodontitis (13). The findings in this report indicate that current smokers had a much higher prevalence of severe periodontitis; smoking is categorized as a major modifiable risk factor for periodontitis. This is consistent with the 2004 Surgeon General's Report on the Health Consequences of Smoking, which infers a causal relationship between smoking and periodontitis (21). Because the prevalence of severe periodontitis is higher among current smokers, tobacco cessation programs are a potential strategy to address disparities in periodontitis in the U.S. population (22). Two related Healthy People 2020 objectives are currently being monitored. One focuses on dental professionals providing tobacco cessation counseling in a dental setting, and another monitors consumers' self-report of tobacco cessation counseling in a dental office (9). Overall, this study demonstrates disparities in periodontitis by age, race, education, and income, and risk factors such as smoking status in the U.S. adult population. The capacity of oral health programs within state and local health agencies can be broadened to capture this subset of the population. The program activities might include efforts to 1) reduce tobacco use, particularly smoking; 2) educate persons on the benefits of regular dental care; and 3) facilitate health communication efforts to make key groups aware of effective preventive interventions.
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The dead, free from all obligation (Shab. 30a), have many claims upon the living. "Their wish must be respected and fulfilled" (Giṭ. 14b; Maimonides, "Yad," Zekiyah, viii. 2, xiii. 1; Shulḥan 'Aruk, Ḥoshen Mishpaṭ, 125, 8). "It is unlawful to speak evil of the dead" (Ber. 19a; Mordecai Yoma, ii. 1196; Hagahot Asheri Ta'anit, iii. 64; compare Diogenes Laertius, "Chilon," i. 3, 70, whence the Latin proverb "De mortuis nil nisi bonum"). It is a transgression of the Law (Deut. xxi. 23) not only to leave the dead unburied (see Burial), but also to do anything which may disfigure or desecrate the dead () (Yer. Sanh. vii. 3; Yer. Soṭah iii. 19b; see Cruelty). For this reason a post-mortem examination was forbidden by R. Akiba (B. B. 154a, b; compare Ḥul. 11b), although anatomical knowledge was obtained by occasional postmortem examinations such as are mentioned in Ber. 45a (compare Nid. 30b). In fact disrespectful treatment of a dead human body, as, for instance, placing the bones in a sack and loading them upon a beast, instead of carrying them reverently to their last resting-place, is regarded as inhuman (Ber. 18a). See also Burial Societies; Cemetery; Funeral Rites;
"Every act of kindness done to the dead is called 'ḥesed shel emet' [="true unselfish love"] because the hope of compensation is excluded" (Gen. R. xcvi.).
In case the dead was offended in his lifetime, his pardon is to be solicited at the grave by the offender in the presence of ten persons (Yoma 87a; Yer. Yoma viii. 45c); this is called asking "meḥilah." Particularly should the memory of the righteous be held in honor, and his name when mentioned be blessed (Ps. cxii. 6; Prov. x. 7; Yoma iii. 11; Pesiḳ. R. 12; Midr. Teh. to Ps. cxviii. 1; Gen. R. xlix.; Midr. Shemuel i.). For this reason the names of good men, and especially of parents, were preserved by being given to children (Haggadah Shab. i. 17; see Zunz, "Z. G." p. 318). When mentioned, the name of the dead, especially of parent or teacher, is to be accompanied by some formula of blessing upon his memory (Ḳid. 31b; See Invocation; Zunz, l.c. pp. 320-348). See also Jahrzeit; ḳaddish; Levirate.
- Zunz, zur Geschichte und Literatur, 1845, pp. 317-458;
- Landshuth, Seder Biḳḳkur Ḥolim, Ma'abar Yaboḳ, Introduction, Berlin, 1857.


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